Lustra Inspires the Love of Reading
Rarely has one Mistra report been so popular. Teachers have ordered almost 10,000 reports from the research program Lustra—Land Use Strategies—detailing the net emissions of greenhouse gases.
The final report from the research program Lustra entitled Carbon, the Climate and the Forest was delivered a little more than a year ago. The report has proven to be extremely popular and as a result been ordered as educational material for many high schools. “Due to the high demand, we had to reprint the report once and are now in also running out of the third report Forested & Moss Covered Land says Steffie Bergström at Utbudet (an organization distributing free educational material to Swedish schools) from where the reports can be ordered.In the first report This Is How It Works, researchers describe how carbon monoxide circulates from the atmosphere, via plants to the ground and back into the atmosphere.
The second report The Affects of Forestry describes how the forestry industry influences the climate and explains why usage of products from the forest is the best way of to slow down climate changes.
The third brochure Forested & Moss Covered Land focuses on the importance of ditched forested and peat moss covered land in order to absorb and dissipate greenhouse gases.
“We use the reports in teaching and the students use them as a foundation for their special projects," says Rune Davidsson, science teacher at Platengymnasiet, a high school in Motala that orders all of the Lustra reports.
On several occasions he has cooperated with Mats Olsson, Mistra´s program director of Lustra. Right now six of his students are busy packing their bags preparing for a trip to Italy, where they will report on their special projects as part of an EU-project. The participation by Platengu?mnasiet was initiated by Mats Olsson.
The Lustra reports can be ordered from Utbudet.se which is a marketer and distributor of teaching material. In addition to the 10,000 Lustra reports another 1,000 annual reports have been ordered.
The Lustra program was financed by Mistra from 1999 to 2006.
